Panini America’s 2020-21 Select Basketball Retail Will Give Collectors the Blues — In a Good Way
Say this about Panini America's upcoming and highly anticipated 2020-21 Select Basketball: It won't be difficult -- at all -- for fans and collectors to differentiate the hobby version from its retail counterpart. The latter, as you're about the find out, boasts the bold, blue base cards. That's it. That's the tell . . . and it's fantastic. In a…
How 2020 Chronicles Baseball Blasters are Unintentionally Misleading (and Why That’s a Good Thing)
Full Disclosure: There's a big, hot-pink typo on the front of retail Blaster boxes of Panini America's new 2020 Chronicles Baseball. Indeed, while the box itself plainly states that there are five cards in each pack, well, that's not accurate. There actually are six cards in each Blaster pack. And that sixth card is not just another base card, either.…
Exclusive Kabooms, Rookie Cards Highlight 2019 Absolute Football Retail Editions
Panini America's 2019 Absolute Football released in hobby shops and on group-break sites across North America yesterday boasting a bevy of upgrades that were well documented in our Quality Control Gallery post earlier this week. In the 24 hours or so since it went live, the product has generated quite a lot of buzz in hobby circles -- which is…
Panini America Explores Retail Exclusives in 2016 Prestige Football (Must-See Gallery)
Panini America's revamped Prestige Football franchise arrives in hobby shops across North America on Wednesday with an impressive 2016 edition bolstered by new designs, a new logo and the usual accomplishment of calling-card staples. But Panini America officials also boldly retooled the retail versions of the product, too. The Knight's Lance readers who paid close attention to last week's Quality…